It's a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much more pronounced than here on earth. It's an interesting place to be. I recommend it. (Neil Armstrong)

It's a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much more pronounced than here on earth. It's an interesting place to be. I recommend it.

Neil Armstrong

Related topics

brilliant close curvature earth horizon place quite sunlight surface

Related quotes

By health I mean the power to live a full, adult, living, breathing life in close contact with what I love - the earth and the wonders thereof - the sea - the sun. View quote
Katherine Mansfield
If they had connived a scheme, and Christ had not been raised from the dead, where would have been the hardest place on the face of the earth to convince anyone? In Jerusalem. View quote
Josh McDowell
It appears, from all that precedes, reasonably certain that if there be any relative motion between the earth and the luminiferous ether, it must be small; quite small enough entirely to refute Fresnel's explanation of aberration. View quote
Albert Abraham Michelson
From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free. View quote
Jacques-Yves Cousteau
The World is so empty if one thinks only of the mountains, rivers, and cities but to know someone who thinks and feels with us,and who, though distant is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe